v3 Articles 1.0.1 - [vB 3.0.1]

v3 Articles 1.0.1

By John Warwick, Web Development Freelancer (john@eovieinteractive.com)
Fully tested and working on vBulletin 3.0.1.
Part of www.v3arcade.com

Important Security Fix - Please download v3 Articles 1.0.2.zip
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If you are upgrading, please read Security Fix Upgrade.txt
If you are installing for the first time, read Instructions.txt

INTRODUCTION
v3 Articles was originally written for the fine people at www.DodgeTalk.com, for use with their vBulletin forum. The purpose of this add-on is to provide a place in vBulletin for articles (e.g. news, reviews, editorials) similar to that of the thread interface - but with a more content-oriented approach.

Features:
- Usergroup based permissions
- Full editing/deletion/moderation system
- Article attachments
- Article ratings
- Comments system
- "Featured Article" system, give great articles top exposure
- Introduction and category description text
- Smilies and icons
- Full BBCODE/WYSIWYG support
- Attachment captions
- Full page navigation for articles and comments
- Comment dupe checking
- Status icons
- View users' ratings in their comments

Alternatively, check the screenshots!

I've tried to make the installation as quick and painless as possible. Enjoy!


WORKING DEMO
You can see a working demo of v3 Articles at www.v3articles.com. (Part of the v3 Arcade website.)


MANY THANKS
- Ron Wilson, of DodgeTalk.com
- Everyone on v3Arcade.com who donated to keep the server running


SUPPORT
Support can be found in the v3 Articles thread on vBulletin.org, and shortly on v3arcade.com. (I'll set up a priority support system.) As always, I'll happily give support for real problems. However, a lot of the time people ask questions about things which have already been answered hundreds of times. If you have a problem caused by not reading through the instructions or checking through the support thread, I can't guarantee a response.


DONATIONS
v3 Articles is free, but my server isn't! Any donations are hugely appreciated in order to help me keep my v3 sites running. (PayPal: john@eovie.com). Many thanks to those who donate!
If you're looking for someone to install v3 Articles for you, email me at john@eovieinteractive.com.


PLEASE CLICK INSTALL
Needless to say, if you install this please click the "Install" button. Thanks.

[restless]

Originally Posted by TheMusicMan

I had to modify the code to allow Moderators to be able to Moderate Articles and any comments submitted about them...

can you let me know how you did this?

[TheMusicMan]

Originally Posted by restless

can you let me know how you did this?

Sure... I asked Colin F if he could do it for me... and he did.... hehe

[Jason McConnell]

Originally Posted by welo

Well, I started writing a bugfix document for this by starting at the beginning of this thread and going all the way through, and most of the problems I see people having are not due to the fault of the script. I won't be recompiling the documentation like I originally thought, but for the newcomers (who probably won't read this post anyway once it drifts back one page), here are the relevant issues:

• No input file specified.
• Red X on the article index when no post icon chosen. Cause: Not using default names for post icons.
• "mysql error number: 1064". Fix - Save VB options as per instructions.
• Wrong article count: No fix yet
• Custom BB codes don't work: Intended
• SQL problem in article.php
• Who's online: Install this hack (or use this)
• Add on: Printable versions of V3Articles
• Searchable articles
• Alphabetically sort articles
• "Last comment by" doesn't link to user profile.
• Thumbnails problem fixed

I think that's about it.

Awesome!!! Thanks for compiling this list... only question I have now is: Is there a way to un-Feature an article once it's been featured?

[TCattitude]

Any official update to this hack?
(Bugs fixes and new features)

Or it being forgotten by the author?

[bendigo-tech]

Originally Posted by TCattitude

Or it being forgotten by the author?

Seem a little forgotten if you ask me.

[welo]

I contacted John recently and offered to coordinate an effort to generate some funding for upgrades and he didn't bite, so I assume it's more a time factor for him than money. This hack has a lot of potential. Hopefully one day he'll be able to get back to it .

[lanc3lot]

Hello...

Samir did u remember me?

I have a question, maybe u have already solved:

How can i make this hack, to when i write a new article, to can upload more than one images in the same time?

I had put in my VB Option, to have 5 for example uploads of attachments, but it didnt "Worked" for V3 Articles...Anybody knows anything about that?

Thanks a lot

[SamirDarji]

Yes, I remember.

I haven't been working too much with articles after I played with it on my test server. There are just too many issues to install it on my live server right now.

But I know that the attachment system used by the articles hack is different than vb's built-in system and that's why a lot of the attachment related problems exist. The only way that you can upload mulitple images is to change the articles code to allow it. Unfortunately, I don't even know where to look.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

[tteal]

Unable to add cookies, header already sent. <---- that is the error I get with this script.

[Qwest]

Anyone figured out how to get this hack to allow adsense code in the articles?

I want to allow my users to ad adsense ads to the article aor have it auto submit ads in the article body.